QuickBooks and BTO

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   Can someone explain to me how QB receives an order from a BTO product? Are the options brought in as notes under the parent? How is the inventory handled for a BTO item?

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carstone Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 12-July-2006 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote carstone Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: QuickBooks and BTO Posted: 02-April-2008 at 2:38pm
	Can someone explain to me how QB receives an order from a BTO product? Are the options brought in as notes under the parent? How is the inventory handled for a BTO item?

Matt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 20-July-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 73	Post Options Post Reply Quote Matt Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02-April-2008 at 2:51pm
	Hi carstone, Are you asking about the current Add-on, or are you asking how it will be done in the new Add-on (currently in development). You have the opportunity now to tell us how you would like BTO to be handled (e.g. how you need it to work for your business). We have not built the BTO component of the new system yet. However, I can tell you that we plan to fully support BTO products and items in as much detail as possible. In the new system QB will receive orders via a tool called the Web Connector. It is a tool that is installed on your pc and talks with ProductCart according to a schedule.

knifepro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18-February-2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote knifepro Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03-April-2008 at 9:03pm
	I have only been using ProductCart for about a month. I don't have the current QuickBooks Add-On for ProductCart so I am not sure how the program works. I did read the QuickBooks Add-On directions and I have read this forum. I moved my site from a cart called Aceflex. AceFlex did not have a QuickBooks program so I used a product called Shopping Cart Assistant from writeitonce.com. Basically you copy the text of an order by press CTRL A and CTRL C and transfer it to the program. You then transfer the orders to QuickBooks. The program enters the customers and invoices but not ITEMS. If an Item was not in Quickbooks then you had to enter the item and then re-transfer that order. Not really a problem since it showed you an error for the orders not imported. To get back to the question: 1. Customer Transfer: Name, Address, Phone Number, Email Address, Payment Information (Card Number and Expiration date for user that use offline processing). 2. Inventory Transfer: Being able to import the ProductCart Inventory and the QuickBooks item list the same. 3. Creation of Sales receipts or Invoices from orders. 4. Tracking number post back to invoice or sales receipt after item ships. Edited by knifepro - 03-April-2008 at 9:05pm
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CardinalArmory Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18-March-2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote CardinalArmory Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25-June-2008 at 11:39pm
	Wow, After a great start with ProductCart (v3.11), I am very disappointed with the QuickBooks Add-On. I am using QB2007 Premier for Mfg/Dist, and the QB Add-On doesn't support assemblies. I edited the .iif file by hand and got all the products synchronized, but appears to be wasted effort. I have ProductCart BTO v3.11 and right now the QB Add-On does basically nothing. I was EXPECTING to see the individual line items in the BTO item list so that my bookkeeper didn't have to enter each one... nope, it just gives a single line with the total price. No help keeping inventory up-too-date with that. I also created a "Handling" Item in QB to map exactly to "Handling Fees" in PC, set up the mapping, and it does not comes across in the qbinvoice.iif file that PC generates. Shipping comes across, but not handling. I had high hopes that ProductCart would make life easier and faster for my bookkeeper/admin, but as of now it does basically nothing. Every order has to be edited so much that she may as well start from scratch. Is the newer version coming soon enough that I should wait? Will it address the BTO problem? Does anyone have any idea why "handling" is not being added to the qbinvoice.iif, even though the mapping has been done?

Hamish Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12-October-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 56	Post Options Post Reply Quote Hamish Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26-June-2008 at 4:17am
	Hi CardinalArmory, There is a new QB add-on in development - so now is a great opportunity to have your say about what you want to be available in it. Check for the post about it and add your requirements to the list. Everything you have put here would be a useful thing to have in the new version.
	Editing ProductCart Code? See WIKI Guidelines for Editing ProductCart's ASP Source Code